The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 7, code name "Moonshine": "Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we've brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment." The latest version of the popular distribution comes with a number of new features, including "spins", or variations of Fedora built from a specific set of software packages, the latest GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6 desktops, fast user switching, improved internationalisation support, a new SELinux troubleshooting tool, significantly faster package management utilities, a new kernel-based virtual machine technology, and many other enhancements. Please read the release announcement and consult the release notes for detailed information. A range of installation and live CD/DVD images of Fedora 7 are available for download from public mirrors and also via BitTorrent.

The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 7, code name "Moonshine": "Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we've brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment." The latest version of the popular distribution comes with a number of new features, including "spins", or variations of Fedora built from a specific set of software packages, the latest GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6 desktops, fast user switching, improved internationalisation support, a new SELinux troubleshooting tool, significantly faster package management utilities, a new kernel-based virtual machine technology, and many other enhancements. Please read the release announcement and consult the release notes for detailed information. A range of installation and live CD/DVD images of Fedora 7 are available for download from public mirrors and also via BitTorrent.

Announced the release of Musix 1.0: "After two years of hard work, the Musix project team is proud to announce the release of the first stable version of Musix. Musix is a 100% free multimedia operating system derived from KNOPPIX and Debian stable, designed for artists as well as general users. This new release includes the Linux Kernel 2.6.21. The documentation was updated and many important applications were upgraded (among those: Ardour 2.0.0.2, Rosegarden 1.5.1 and the Musix's Control Panel). Some new programs were also installed (MScore, Nekobee). Many bugs were corrected and some new functionality added." Visit the project's download page to read the full release announcement.

A new development build of SAM Linux, a distribution based on PCLinuxOS, has been released: "SAM 2007.1-test1 is available for testing. The most important changes: OpenOffice.org was dropped, here is the reason: SAM now comes with basic support for more than 50 languages, proprietary ATI and NVIDIA drivers have been added to the live CD with a nice GUI to install them, under the hood it is running a development version of kernel 2.6.20.11. All packages have been updated to their newest versions available in the PCLinuxOS repositories, some new ones have been added (PDFedit, Planner, Searchmonkey, Ntfs-config, VirtualBox...) and a fresh theme was created." Read the rest of the release announcement on the distribution's home page.

announced the availability of an updated release of Ubuntu Christian Edition: "We have just released Ubuntu Christian Edition v3.2 (Feisty). This release fixes one potentially serious bug in the IEs4Linux Installer. The IEs4Linux Installer was deleting the bin folder that it created from the users home directory during the clean up process. This release also marks the end of the Ubuntu CE Installer. The Ubuntu CE Installer allowed users to easily add additional Christian and Educational programs to Ubuntu CE. We have decided to discontinue this feature since there were some issues with the Ichthux install option." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details.

A new version of AUSTRUMI, a Slackware-based mini live and installation CD designed for older computers, has been released. From the changelog: "Added translations in Greek, Italian and Russian; replaced Unionfs with Aufs; added gnubiff, a mail notification program; added gtk-iptables; added xonclock, an on-screen analog clock; added Xpad, a sticky notes application; added HomeBank, a personal accounting program; updated AbiWord, Bluefish, Firefox, GIMP, GQview, Nmap, NTFS-3G, OpenSSH, PHP, Xchat, X.Org; replaced Apache with Hiawatha, gtkfind with Searchmonkey, aria2 with wget, XProc with HardInfo; updated kernel to version 2.6.20.6." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full changelog.

The first test release of Bluewhite64 Linux 11.1, a 64-bit variant of Slackware Linux built from Slackware's "current" tree, has been released: "I have the joy of presenting Bluewhite64 11.1-test1, code name 'One Year Of Bluewhite64'. This release is a development release and a preview for the upcoming stable version. Bluewhite64 11.1-test1 includes the latest stable kernel 2.6.21.3 (IA-32 emulation enabled) with all major file systems and IDE, SCSI and SATA controllers built in. Also, you will find GCC 4.1.2, glibc 2.5, a modularized X.Org server version 1.3, window managers - the latest KDE 3.5.7 (including Amarok 1.4.5 audio player and K3B 1.0.1 CD/DVD burner) and XFce 4.4.1, updated development tools, the Subversion version control system, the Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 browser...." Read the full release announcement for more details.

Announced the release of Zenwalk Linux 4.6: "The Zenwalk Team is happy to announce that Zenwalk 4.6 (code name 'Red Pill') has been released. The up-to-date kernel is now at 2.6.21.3, providing KVM support. New init scripts and several performance enhancement have also been committed. The Xfce desktop is provided in version 4.4.1, with notification support to let systems like udev notify the user about automounted devices (USB keys, DVD...). The Thunar file manager now handles video thumbnails and many new panel plugins have been added or updated. X11 compositing (aka translucency, window shadows...) is available out of the box. The most important change in 4.6 at system level is the new tool chain, with GCC 4.1, which has been fully implemented." Here is the full release announcement.

Announced the availability of the "Stagecoach" edition of Pioneer Linux 2.1, a combined server and workstation distribution based on Ubuntu: "Technalign, Inc. has released Pioneer Stagecoach 2.1 of its base Linux operating system. Pioneer Stagecoach 2.1 is being released on DVD. Many enhancements were added in the latest version of Stagecoach on both the server and workstation. Additions to the workstation include OpenOffice.org 2.2, additional games, Guarddog Firewall, as well as the KlamAV anti-virus utilities to name a few. On the server side, Postfix, Sendmail, PHP, as well as SpamAssassin were added to the mix. Webalizer was also added to allow analysis of traffic on web sites on Stagecoach." Find more details in the press release.

Rene Rebe has announced the availability of a release candidate for T2 SDE 7.0, a distribution build kit designed for building custom Linux distributions from source code: "We are pleased to announce the release candidate T2 SDE 7.0-rc, named 'Water Falls'. The release features two newly supported CPU architectures (AVR32 and Blackfin), as well as the brand new GCC 4.2 and glibc 2.6. Additionally, the T2 7.0 series comes with over 400 new packages, while most of the existing packages received an update. The release candidate primarily focuses on bringing the GCC 4.2 and glibc 2.6 binaries into wider testing for a smooth 7.0 release." Read more in the release announcement. Besides the usual set of build scripts, the project has also released a pre-built, i686-optimised live CD image for the desktop (with KDE)